that the media's not look at those toys. insurance must be expensive. nah. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an astate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your polies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest b♪eeds. ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male announcer ] fedex office. now save 50% on banners. >> sean: yesterday, the obama deputy campaign manager claimed the only reason the benghazi terror attac

. >>now that's politically direct. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ nah, he's probably got... [ dennis' voice ] allstate. they can bundle all your policies together. lot of paperwork. actually... [ dennis' voice ] an allstate agent can help do the switching and paperwork for you. well, it probably costs a lot. [ dennis' voice ] allstate can save you up to 30% more when you bundle. well, his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. ♪ ♪ bundle and save with an allstate agent. are you in good hands? >> cenk: now 19 different states have passed laws that say we need voter i.d. because there is rampant democratic voter fraud. now in a pennsylvania case when asked to provide a single piece of evidence that in was voter fraud they couldn't do it. not a single piece of evidence. does that mean there is not voter fraud in the country? there is gigantic republican voter fraud. a guy was paid $21 million by the republican party since 2004. they have asked him to do voter registrations with a high degree of impropriety over and over again. the republicans told them, change the n

differently. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? what the current audience can expect from my show is the unexpected. >>stephanie miller challenges the system, now it's your turn. >>it's a little bit of magic. >>connect with "talking liberally with stephanie miller" at facebook.com/stephaniemillershow and on twitter at smshow. [ music ] >> announcer: stephanie miller ♪ ♪ [ inaudible ] ♪ >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 22 minutes after the hour. this hour brought to you by go to meeting. go to gotomeeting.com and click on the try it free button and type in the promo code stephanie. hi, sue? >> caller: all of you on current tv are the only and i mean the only news network on tv that has not gone crazy over the debate and called what i call media masturbation and polls and the presidents's performance. so thank you. i have a challenge for all of your listeners and

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president's new ads. >> bernie madoff, dennis kozlowski, criminals, gluttons of greed and the evil genius who towered over them? one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about, it's sesame street. megyn: republicans taking note, a new page at the rnc web site has the count, you know, count dracula? tracking the obama campaign and pointing out that the president has mentioned big bird eight times and elmo five times at recent events. you know how he counts. there has been zero talk of libya plans to fix the economy according to the count. now apparently the folks at sesame street have had about enough of this. can you blame them? >>> well, powerful testimony today before the sentencing of former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. victims emotionally recounting the horror of his abuse to a judge. sandusky, in the end, was sentenced to 30-60 years in prison for sexually abusing several young boys over more than a

? >>> plus, it's tea time as former nba bad boy dennis rodman shows his softer side. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back, everyone. here's a look at your weekend forecast, what you need to know especially if you're in the central midwest. strong thunderstorms especially into iowa, missouri, sweeping through areas into illinois late in the night including oklahoma. if you're up there in wisconsin through michigan could be a very rainy period over the weekend. could see a lot of heavy rain too. again, potential for tornadoes initially saturday afternoon. watch out iowa and missouri especially. if you're watching us on wtva news in tupelo. don't miss live music and taste your bean concoction at the to 12 chili fest. that's your early today event of the day. >>> you better bring some in. >> it's a little pies ji. >> that's all right. >> you're all right. >> bring some in monday. >>> now for 1078 entertainment news. the new movies hitting theaters. ben affleck directs and stars in argo, a drama about the 1979 iran hostage crisis. it's expected to take in around $20 million. the famil

. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own butter too? what? this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier sure does who are you? [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. five delicious cooking sauces you combine with fresh ingredients to make amazing home-cooked meals. ♪ ambiance [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. >>> here's what people are talking about. apparently after last week's debate polls show obama trailing mitt romney by one point. yeah. one point or as is also known the thing obama failed to make during last week's debate. speaking of the election, you guys, the vice-presidential debate is just three days away. both sides are busy getting ready. and republican candidate paul ryan says he expects joe biden to come at him like a cannonball. biden was like, there's g

. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> bernie madoff, dennis keselowski, criminals, gluttons of greed and the evil genius who towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about, it's sesame street. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest. >> this comes as the 2012 presidential election is just four weeks away, and now new polls show the race between president obama and republican rival mitt romney is closer than ever. nbc's tracie potts has more from washington. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. they're raising a lot of money, too. which is why we'll see more of those ads. romney today in iowa and ohio. speaking of campaign slogans, turns out he may end up repeating a new one he coined yesterday. we first heard it on monday. he argued president obama's policies made the world more dangerous. >> the risk of conflict in the region is

. like big bird, big bird and then big bird. >> bernie madoff, ken lenny, dennis cosloufski and the evil genius who towered over them? one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy, mitt romney knows it is not wall street have you to worry about, it's sesame street. >> i am going to stop the subsidies to pbs. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest. >> sean: that's the hard-hitting message from team obama. maybe we will hear from shamus the dog later in the campaign. the rnc says the campaign has relentlessly talked about big bird and elmo for days, mentioning the characters 13 times, but not a single word about the libyan terror attack or how he plans to fix the economy. big bird must be this week's version of throwing granny over the cliff. meanwhile, conservatives are focused on the real issues of the day, like putting americans back to work. bringing justices to the terrorists that killed ambassador stevens and three other americans last month. that's the task of the white house, only made more diffic

will make. >> well,tory ray is begging for me to ask you who. >> dennis miller. he may not be -- >> no, absolutely, he's hill larous. >> nick dipaulo. >> i want to make a comment. i think conservatives need to stop whining about this. either get funnier or realize that because jon stewart and "snl" are perceived as being left leaning, when they do skewer the president, as "snl" did this weekend or when they d handling of libya, it almost resonates in a much bigger way, yes or no? >> no, i think you're absolutely right. i think part of comedy is taking shots, political humorists taking shots at everybody. that also is in the liberal wheel house. liberals tend to sort of eat their own and that's what comedians do. i think that if you go into comedy and say, i want to be funny, and then second airily, i want to be conservative, you can be pretty funny. if you go in first and i say i want to do conservative humor, you'll have a harder time being funny with that. >> that line between comedy and making a serious political point is kind of interesting to me. you think about jon stewart, and h

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companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> dennis ross who served as the middle east adviser to presidents obama and clinton recently emphasized that if iran acquires nuclear weapons, saudi arabia has said they will get one, too, thereby setting off even more instability in the region. mr. ross was one of the speakers at wednesday's bipartisan policy center panel on iran's nuclear program. a discussion stem from the new release report titled "the price of inaction: energy and economic effects of a nuclear iran." other speakers include former u.s. senator virginia charles robb and the paper's authors. this is about an hour. >> good morning. thank you for coming. welcome to the rollout of "the price of inaction: energy and economic effects of a nuclear iran." let me begin with an apology, if i may. i have a board meeting in virginia this morning at which some very important systems will be made, and i'm also an infectious laugh and more than passing interest, and i'm not going to be able to remain for the entire presentation but i wanted to com

workshop as -- >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, glutens of greed and the evil genius who towered over them, one man has the guts to say his name. >> big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy, mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about, it's sesame street. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. >> mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest. >> now it's funny. >> politics. >> when talking about sesame street and not taxes, you know, foreign policy or, you know, what to do about the fiscal cliff, what kind of a campaign is that? >> well, this is -- so the gamut here, you mentioned, this is on cable tv nationally in some broadcast tv nationally and not in any swing state. if the obama campaign spent $100,000 on this ad buy, i would be surprised. they certainly don't have any real money behind it. this is meant to be a talker in the media and to send to their base and say see, mitt romney, he's being ridiculous. the danger when you do things like this, this close to an election i

prop here. >> bret: right. you're teeing it up. play it. >> bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kezlowsky, criminals, glut top of greed, evil genius who tower over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. big bird. big bird. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yellow, menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it's not wall street you have to worry about. it's "sesame street." >> bret: charles? >> this could be the worst ad i've ever seen. i make an appeal to people in chicago. run this ad every night over and over again, spend all of your money. and time on this. this is an ad that is trivial. it diminishes the presidency. it assumes, of course, that everybody wants to subsidize company that, as we heard from shannon is third of a billion dollar enterprise. for obama to be talking about it, i love the way he said this is the biggest driver of the debt. the biggest driver of our debt according to obama, himself, is medicare. he has done nothing on that. the same rip on medicare that romney mentioned pbs as the way to say we're going to go from the biggest expenditures to trivial

amazed to see how up to date as always. they even have dennis and cable tv. [laughter] if we could somehow just march the urban smug liberal or mississippi, we could stop for lunch at one of the many delicious places to eat. then show the liberals on thing they might not expect to see. white and black folks eating together, often at the same table. that happens a lot in the south. you will see a racially integrated crowd. it will be diverse to use a word that liberals love. it would disturb liberals to realize that the south is a heck of a lot more integrated than some of the coastal cities. it is not memphis or mobile that is stuck in segregation, it is l.a. and new york. for the past decade, african-americans from the north have been moving south in huge numbers. it is a total reverse of the great migration of the 1940s and 1950s when large parts of the southern black population moved north to places like chicago, detroit, and new york. but now blacks are coming back to this out. impossible, they cry. don't they know that the south is full of rednecks and racists? will black peop

is back for just 4 bucks. 1 of 4 big 4-dollar meals on the 2-4-6-8 value menu. only at denny's. open all night. >>> overnight news three people are hurt after a southern california commuter train crashed into a stalled semi. it happened in newhall. the truck was carrying cars and stalled out on the track and a metro train crashed into it. the driver was able to get out before it was hit. >>> police use surveillance video to identify an arrest of a drunk driver that crash into a liquor store. watch at as the truck slams into the liquor store. there was a man behind the counter and he was hurt but others were able to jump out of the way. officers say that video helped them track down the suspect who has been identified as robert waynering. >> about two hours after the actual incident we found out we located he was under the influence and over the state influence for california. he was arrested. >> ring was arrested at his resees dense and charged with felony dui. >>> the parents of a ten-year- old girl in ohio are considering pressing charges against her neighbors who say bully her dau

congressman dennis rehberg. we will have that for you live on c-span. >> campaign 2012's debate hub website is the only place you will see our live coverage of behind-the-scenes sights and sounds before and after the debates. it has each debate question available as a separate topic. you can read political suites from reporters and others at c- span.org/debates/ >> c-span gives a great inside look into what happening in washington. whenever that happens, you are always surprised at what comes back to you and it kind of changes your view. it's different than regular media, because it's very effective and shows a lot of what is real and what's going on. i watched hearings and when the senate and house vote on different bills, we watch from the office. and when the supreme court has hearings, we watch different decisions and opinions on c- span. >> erin watches on directv. c-span, created in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> recently, henry de sio, the chief operating officers of the 2008 obama campaign, former deputy assistant to president obama,

your polies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur ♪ ♪ >> alisyn: in the vice presidential debate thursday night, biden claimed the terror attack in benghazi were connected to republican budget cuts. >> this lecture on embassy security, the congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked, number one. so much for the embassy security piece. >> alisyn: congressman warbacher addressed the issue at the house hearings this week. debunking the v.p.'s theory. >> it's been suggested that budget cuts were responsible for a lack of security in benghazi. i'd like to ask miss lamb, you made this decision personally. was there any budget consideration and lack of budget that led you not to increase

, dennis kozlowski, i will criminals gluttons of greed and evil genius towered over them. one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. big bird, big bird. >> me, big bird. >> a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about. it is "sesame street". >> reporter: that ad was out about couple hours, bringing out "sesame street"'s couldn't saying look at president obama has been talking about this. mentioned big bird eight times. elmo five times. zero mentions about libya and zero plans to fix the economy. this is going in a very interesting direction this morning. bill: back and forth we go. thank you, john. we'll follow the campaign stoplighter in iowa. martha: we'll talk about all that "sesame street" stuff later in the show. governor romney starting his day in the key battleground state of iowa. the state carries six electoral votes. later today, president romney and governor romney head to buckeye state. ohio has of course 18 electoral votes. bill: we all know ohio is important, right? especially for republican ledger. ohio has voted

obama's campaign mocking mitt romney. here it is. >> bernie madoff, ken lay, dennis kozlowski, criminals, gluttons of greed and the evil genius who towered over them, one man has the guts to speak his name. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> big bird. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yellow, a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about, it is sesame street. >> i'm going to stop the subsidy to pbs. >> mitt romney, taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest. >> romney mentioned big bird and his plan to cut funding to pbs during last week's presidential debate. but the saga continues. today, sesame workshop, which sponsors big bird, is asking the obama campaign to take down that ad. >>> america's senior citizens won't see much of an increase in their social security benefits next year. that's the news from the government federal -- from the federal government, rather, which announced today that social security recipients will likely get less than a 2% bump to account for cost of living increases. that's less than half the increase in benef